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Senegalese presidential candidates launched their shortened campaigns on Saturday.

People participate in a protest against the postponement of the presidential election scheduled on February 25 in Dakar, Senegal February 24, 2024.Tensions have gripped the country since early February, when a bid by President Macky Sall to postpone by 10 months a vote that had been due to take place on February 25 provoked widespread protests and warnings by critics of democratic backsliding.

“We will have to adapt everything,” opposition candidate and former mayor of the capital Dakar, Khalifa Sall, told Reuters. “We will have to demonstrate flexibility and ingenuity,” said Khalifa Sall, who is not related to the president.The charismatic former mayor, who was prevented by a jail sentence from contesting the 2019 presidential election and later pardoned, launched his campaign as the clock struck midnight on Friday.

 

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